Jaguarek62 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 (edited) Hi, I want to have vmware workstation 10/12 (I don't know which of them I will need) alongside vmware workstation 16. Is that somehow possible? Edited January 30, 2022 by Jaguarek62 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergiaws Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 I have the same question. The thing is that Windows XP and 2000 require an older VMware to get rid of the sound distortion sometimes. But apparently we can't install multiple vmware versions in the same OS, we would need another Windows installation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayZen Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Doesn't seem to be possible, as it causes a conflict in services that VMware Workstation uses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerdulater Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 You could try changing the hardware version if that gives you problems, But... On 5/11/2022 at 7:38 PM, RayZen said: Doesn't seem to be possible, as it causes a conflict in services that VMware Workstation uses. So you would have to use Virtualbox to install VMware (As VMware has a anti-vm check for it's own software even if you don't install VMware Tools) But this will cause a lot of lag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayZen Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 6 hours ago, Nerdulater said: So you would have to use Virtualbox to install VMware You should also be able to run VMware Workstation inside VMware Workstation, there may be a warning, but it should run a VM afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerdulater Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 Well on older versions at least, there is a Anti VM. 12 and above work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonghornXP Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 1/30/2022 at 8:32 PM, Jaguarek62 said: Hi, I want to have vmware workstation 10/12 (I don't know which of them I will need) alongside vmware workstation 16. Is that somehow possible? U could use hardware compatibility from vmware workstation itself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaguarek62 Posted May 17, 2022 Author Share Posted May 17, 2022 17 hours ago, LonghornXP said: U could use hardware compatibility from vmware workstation itself? Unfortunately this does not work as intended. For example vista is still buggy under vmware 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergiaws Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 In my case, I wish to run XP/Vista/2000 inside Windows 10/11. The issue here, is that XP don't run properly in VMware 11 or newer, the sound is very buggy there. So, I planned to make a dualboot between Windows 7 and Windows 10/11 and run old VMware inside Windows 7/8.1. However, there's no guarantee that Windows 7 in a dual boot will work properly due to unsupported hardware. So, I use my old Toshiba for such vms, it has a Windows Vista system with VMware 10. But, about the other PC, I'm wondering if I should install Windows 7 inside Virtual Box, and run there the XP VM using VMware. Or maybe try to install Windows 7 in vmware and run XP inside Virtual PC 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerdulater Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 12 hours ago, Sergiaws said: In my case, I wish to run XP/Vista/2000 inside Windows 10/11. The issue here, is that XP don't run properly in VMware 11 or newer, the sound is very buggy there. So, I planned to make a dualboot between Windows 7 and Windows 10/11 and run old VMware inside Windows 7/8.1. However, there's no guarantee that Windows 7 in a dual boot will work properly due to unsupported hardware. So, I use my old Toshiba for such vms, it has a Windows Vista system with VMware 10. But, about the other PC, I'm wondering if I should install Windows 7 inside Virtual Box, and run there the XP VM using VMware. Or maybe try to install Windows 7 in vmware and run XP inside Virtual PC 2007. I'm pretty sure that Windows 11 x64 can't install VPC 2007. Windows 8.1/10 may work as shown on this website: http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?t=19227 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artenox Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Using a virtual machine in a virtual machine is a bad idea. Use older versions of VirtualBox to run XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC7601 Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 (edited) I don't know if it would work, but have you tried Sandboxie? If that doesn't work, you can try to install the VMWare version you want to use, copy its program files to anywhere else, then uninstall it and install the other version you want to use. Edited September 28, 2022 by SC7601 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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